Business Administrator Greg Fehrenbach

PERTH AMBOY – It’s been 7 years, but Harbortown resident and Planning Board Member Steve Nascimento can finally say that work is at last being done at Harbortown.

Meetings dealing with this issue have been ongoing through different administrations. There has been correspondence with the developer, Code Enforcement and the Council.

The developer was given a punch-list of repairs to be done. Business Administrator Greg Fehrenbach said, “The developer is working on the list. Because of the extensive work to be done, the deadline for some of the line items had to be extended.”

There was a meeting with the Harbortown developers, the Harbortown Sail Board and Code Enforcement to iron out what repairs needed to be done and what should be given priority.

In July 2013, Council Members Joel Pabon and Lisa Nanton took a tour of the Harbortown Complex. They reported at one of the Council Meetings that they were surprised at the conditions that they saw.

Councilwoman Lisa Nanton took a tour of other towns where the developer had similar units but were built with sturdier material.

At a recent Council Meeting, Councilmen Kenneth Gonzalez took Code Enforcement Director Ed Scala to task. When Gonzalez told Scala that it’s his department that needs to step up in regards to Harbortown and the long delays in getting repairs done is when developers started to take immediate action.

Some items included unstable balconies, vinyl siding buckling, drainage and foundation problems.